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It seems as if Thailand is now the place to go for martial arts films featuring shockingly realistic fighting. This really came to the attention of the world at large with Ong-Bak, a film with fight scenes so intense that the legitimacy of them is still debated today. While I found the fights to [...]

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Tombs of the Blind Dead is one of only a few movies to ever make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up (others being The Exorcist, The Omen, The Changeling, just to name a few).  For the uninitiated Tombs of the Blind Dead is the first in four films about Satan-worshipping Templars [...]

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I’ve never been a fan of films that have three or more stories running at the same time. Usually these films end up rushing to combine them all and make the film work. Now, tons of films use two stories that tie-in together, and I’m not calling out those films. For the most part, unless [...]

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Adapting manga to film is nothing new for Takashi Miike, nor are films based around rival factions going to war. What is new to Miike however is the backing of big studios and being given a large budget to work with. Crows Zero is backed by Toho, one of Japan’s biggest film studios. I’m [...]

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I’m a big fan of Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures. I feel it’s one of the most overlooked films of the 90’s, and a turning point in Jackson’s career. After having seen it, I became really interested in the true-story behind it, one of two girls whose lives were so mundane and boring that they [...]

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Over here in the states, Chan-wook Park is well known, and highly respected among foreign film fans. It baffles my mind why one of his peers, Ji-woon Kim, isn’t as highly touted. Don’t get me wrong, Park is great, but Kim is an equally fantastic director. Chalk it up to the fact that A Tale [...]

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Apparently God’s light is finally shining down on me, because a film featuring two of my favorite things in the world, samurai and metal music, have finally converged!! The film is called Metal Samurai, appropriately enough, and it looks like a complete goof, but a fun one at that. Read on for a synopsis and [...]

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I was so impressed after watching Koji Wakamatsu’s Go, Go Second Time Virgin (review) that I’ve really made a point to seek out more of his work as well as read up on him as a director. Firstly, the man was a workhorse, much in the vein of Takashi Miike, making well over 35 [...]

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Hearing a lot about Paul Naschy, Vengeance of the Zombies felt like a good place to start checking out his films. Zombies. Vengeance. Beautiful. Maybe not. Naschy’s career spans almost 50 years, and he’s well known amongst the Spanish horror crowd. The driving force behind seeing this film, [...]

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You know that dream where everything is finally going right, and then…BAM!…you’re falling into a black pit, sinking deeper and deeper while racing into the unknown, and, just before you splat into a mess on the ground below…you wake up? The visceral experience is so real that you jerk awake drenched in sweat, screaming, or [...]

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